Great spirits often meet violent oppisition with mediocre minds.

The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.

You believe in a god that plays dice; I believe in law & order.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

I came- though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of twelve.

Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time.

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.